Last week, we started the cleaning and preparing for Ethan and Lilly's trip - they arrive Friday afternoon! Since we have essentially condensed two homes (our goods from Phoenix plus the items from when the villa was a rental) into one, we live in constant clutter. Plus, we have had a lot of projects going on, like coating the patios, and I painted some of our railings, too. We had some debr ...

A wide variety of experiences last week... We had a few dry days and rolled the dice, looking to the skies the whole time, and were able to fix our patio coating! Here is a before and after shot - it's so much nicer now, the aggregate is coated enough that it no longer hurts to walk on it! And it's one, uniform color. However, we coated it really thick, and there's a seam on the vertical wal ...

Last week was busy! Aside from the regular errands and house maintenance, Lobsterfest was in full gear! This is the first year that we were "on island" for the Block Party - I picked up a Passport (you earn a stamp at each lunch and dinner location you attend while they host Lobsterfest IF you order lobster, to be entered into a drawing) at the Belikin Store on Coconut Drive on Wednesday - m ...

Last Tuesday was the opening of Lobster Season! I journeyed into town to get some content for Live & Invest Overseas, as well as my YouTube Channel: Lobster Season Opens in Belize 2025! The sun was shining, and it was a beautiful day - we had not had rain in a few days, so when I got home, I started doing prep work to coat our patios with the same material we put on our roof. They were an ag ...

Last week saw MORE rain, lots of gray days, and not much worth doing out and about. On the upside, I haven't put gas in the cart in over 2 weeks, gotta take wins when you can! Friday night, we were watching a show when power cut out. It was really windy all day, with brief periods of heavy rain, so it wasn't a big surprise to us when it went out. Time to turn on the USB fans and hope the out ...

The rainy season has a strong foothold in our weather – it rained most days last week, to where I didn’t leave the villa at all on three days, and I was dodging showers on the others. For reference, we normally vacationed here in June or July, as the boys were out of school, allowing us to stay for 10-12 days (the max my employer would allow per year.) We never had nearly this much rain in a ...

Last week was mostly marred by pests...I will get to that shortly... Antonio, the electrician, found an uncapped, live wire in our septic pump's circuit, floating around in wet dirt - he removed it, and not to jinx anything, but so far, the new breaker has not tripped.  Tuesday, I found that something had chewed holes in several one-gallon-sized ziplock bags of Kitten Food in our pantry. A ...

Have you ever had the light in your refrigerator go out...? Me neither, and I have had some refrigerators for 10+ years, yet somehow our circa 2017 Electrolux by Frigidaire basic-of-basic fridge's bulb burnt out. Good luck finding anything in a dark fridge! I feared I would never find the correct lightbulb on the island and would have to ship it down (which takes 3-4 weeks), but believe it ...

I am excited to share a WEEK of WINS on the island! Tuesday, I drove one of my neighbors, Tanya, to Publics, the grocery store by the water taxi. Their pricing on almost all items is the best on the island, so it's worth the drive - but Tanya is apprehensive to drive through town, so I offered to take her with me. She still shops like I did in North America; "FORO - Fear Of Running Out", gotta ...

Picking up where we left off last week, our lawyer meeting was relatively straightforward - he's attempting to locate the Marshall assigned to our case. The Marshall will visit Bob's house (the Canadian real estate agent who stole our land stamp money in 2018) and initiate the repossession process, which Bob would have to "buy" back, effectively compensating us. I question what he may have of ...